Israeli Colonists Block Dirt Road East of Tubas With Stones, Disrupting Residents

Israeli colonists blocked a dirt road east of Tubas by placing stones across it, disrupting the movement of residents and their vehicles.

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WAFA reported the road linked Tubas city with the hamlet of Khirbet Yerza, east of the city, and said Mukhlis Masa'id, head of the Yerza Village Council, described the obstruction as part of efforts to restrict movement.

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Masa'id told WAFA the blockage was the second time settlers had blocked the road within the past week.

The WAFA report placed the incident on Thursday, July 2, 2026, and identified the location as east of Tubas.

The National Office for Defending the Land and Resisting Settlement said in a weekly report issued this Saturday that international anger is rising in response to “violence and terrorism of the settlers” and to “the policies of the settler colonial occupation.”

That report said France, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway announced, in a joint position last Tuesday, sanctions on four leaders of settlement organizations and twenty-one settlers from the West Bank, and also on Israeli Finance Minister and Settlement Minister in the Ministry of the IDF, Bezalel Smotrich.

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It added that French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian? Barro clarified the reasons for banning entry of Smotrich, noting that Smotrich publicly calls for annexing the West Bank and establishing new settlements there, re-occupying Gaza, and accelerating the Palestinian Authority’s economic collapse.

The report also said the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected what it described as “disreputable measures” taken by those countries against “Israelis and Israeli entities and a minister in the government.”

The weekly report said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing growing pressure from within his party after more than one-third of Labour MPs in the House of Commons signed a letter urging the government to halt trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

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It stated that 137 of the 402 Labour MPs in Parliament signed the letter, urging the government to take tougher measures against Israeli policies in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The report further said Starmer’s government has taken steps regarded as the strictest toward Israel in years, including suspending free-trade talks, freezing some arms export licenses, and imposing sanctions on the Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich.

In parallel, the report said European diplomats concluded that with EU efforts to push for tougher measures against Israel faltering, several countries have concluded that coordinated sanctions at the national level are the best option at present.